US4303545A - Hot roll cleaning paste and method - Google Patents
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- G03—PHOTOGRAPHY; CINEMATOGRAPHY; ANALOGOUS TECHNIQUES USING WAVES OTHER THAN OPTICAL WAVES; ELECTROGRAPHY; HOLOGRAPHY
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- C11—ANIMAL OR VEGETABLE OILS, FATS, FATTY SUBSTANCES OR WAXES; FATTY ACIDS THEREFROM; DETERGENTS; CANDLES
- C11D—DETERGENT COMPOSITIONS; USE OF SINGLE SUBSTANCES AS DETERGENTS; SOAP OR SOAP-MAKING; RESIN SOAPS; RECOVERY OF GLYCEROL
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- C11—ANIMAL OR VEGETABLE OILS, FATS, FATTY SUBSTANCES OR WAXES; FATTY ACIDS THEREFROM; DETERGENTS; CANDLES
- C11D—DETERGENT COMPOSITIONS; USE OF SINGLE SUBSTANCES AS DETERGENTS; SOAP OR SOAP-MAKING; RESIN SOAPS; RECOVERY OF GLYCEROL
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- G03G15/00—Apparatus for electrographic processes using a charge pattern
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- the present invention relates to the field of xerographic hot roll fusing and to the cleaning of such a fuser's hot, toner-contaminated members, particularly the hot roll itself.
- a hot roll fuser is a preferred means of fusing dry, particulate toner to copy paper.
- a pair of cylindrical rollers in pressure contact, form a hot nip through which the copy paper passes.
- one means or another is used to form a relatively loose toner image on a photoconductor.
- a transfer station provides a means by which a portion of this toner image is transferred to a sheet of copy paper.
- the sheet of paper now carries a relatively loose toner image on one surface thereof.
- the paper then passes through the fusing nip whereat the toner thereon is melted or fused to the paper to form a permanent copy.
- the toner side of the paper engages a relatively soft heated roll, whereas the other side of the paper engages a rigid cool roll.
- the soft heated roll is essentially a rigid aluminum core to which is adhered a layer of silicone elastomeric material, for example as described in U.S. Pat. No. 3,848,305, incorporated herein by reference.
- the ability of the copy paper's leading edge to release from the fuser roll, and primarily the hot roll, is a function of the state of the hot roll's surface cleanliness. As a result, it is necessary to periodically manually clean this surface of filmed-on-toner, paper dust, rosin, etc. In addition, if residual toner remains on the hot roll, ghost images may result on subsequent copies.
- a cleaning means should, ideally, not become excessively fluid or volatile at higher than ambient temperatures, and of course must be non-toxic.
- the IBM TECHNICAL DISCLOSURE BULLETIN of September 1979, at page 1376 describes the use of a concentrated, non-ionic, water soluble surfactant such as iso-octylphenoxy-polyethoxyethanol to clean either the hot or the cold roll.
- This surfactant is applied by the use of a felt tip graphic art pen or a nylon mesh pad, and cleaning is followed by a 25 sheet cycle of the copier to remove residual surfactant from the fuser.
- the present invention provides a method of manually cleaning hot portions, for example the hot roll, of a hot roll fuser by the use of a cleaning paste which remains viscous, is non-toxic, and volatilizes only to a limited extent, at the elevated temperature usually associated with a hot roll fuser, for example 365° F.
- the cleaning paste of the present invention is easy to handle during use, does not result in contamination of other copier or fuser components, as by the dripping of cleaning material thereon, and the like, and does not provide an uncomfortable environment, i.e. flammability or odor for the person cleaning the hot roll fuser.
- a high molecular weight cleaning paste which includes finely divided solids such as graphite, diatomaceous earth (Celite brand), fullers earth and/or colloidal pyrogenic silica pigment (Cab-O-Sil brand).
- penetrant By selecting plasticizer and/or surfactant penetrant materials having high molecular weight, problems of volatility and flammability are minimized.
- penetrant is to mean materials which tend to penetrate, soften, be absorbed by, and/or have an affinity for the polymeric constituents of toner.
- this selection parameter alone results in a material whose viscosity lowers at the elevated temperatures usually associated with hot roll cleaning, such that these now-more-fluid materials tend to flow down the hot surface, to contaminate material located therebelow.
- plasticizer and surfactant penetrants having too high a molecular weight have a reduced penetrating action. That is, the paste's cleaning ability is reduced in that the toner is not softened and released from the roll's surface as discrete particles, to thereafter be carried away as the paste is wiped off the roll.
- exemplary plasticizers found acceptable are in the molecular weight range of about 2200 to 3800, whereas exemplary surfactants are in the molecular weight range of about 500 to 2000.
- polyester plasticizer MW molecular weight 2200 (Chem Service, Inc.), polyester plasticizer MW 3380 (Chem Service, Inc.), polyester plasticizer MW 6000 (Chem Service, Inc.), polyethoxylated t-octyl phenols 7-40 moles EtO surfactants (Triton brand), di(tridecyl) phthalate plasticizer, polyethoxylated tallow amide 50 moles EtO, polyethoxylated oleyl alcohols 10-20 moles EtO, polyethoxylated stearyl amines 5-50 moles EtO, polyethoxylated soya amine 15 moles EtO, epoxidized soy bean oil, soy bean oil, partially hydrogenated soy bean oil, and glycerol trioleate.
- plasticizer without limitation to high molecular weight plasticizers, is meant a material normally added to a plastic to facilitate compounding and improve flexibility and other properties of the finished product.
- plasticizers are nonvolatile organic liquids or low-melting solids, especially the phthalate, adipate and sebacate esters, aryl phosphate esters, and polyol alcohols.
- surfactant again without limitation to high molecular weight surfactants, is meant any compound that affects, i.e. usually reduces, surface tension when dissolved in water or water solutions, or which similarly affects interfacial tension between two liquids.
- the testing method selected was to screen copiers, and particularly their hot roll fusers, which had been returned to the factory for reconditioning after extended use by customers. Severely contaminated fusers were selected such that the severity of contamination was generally of the same class. The fuser hot rolls were heated to fuser operating temperature. The selected mixtures were used to manually remove contamination from a given area of the heated hot roll, for example 1 to 3 square inches.
- a first test procedure of this type involved only the search for proper plasticizer/surfactant material taking into account its cleaning rating and its generation of smoke or odor at the elevated fusing temperature when cleaning a hot fuser roll having toner contamination which was not so severe as to be classified as baked-on-toner. Table I gives these results.
- examples 5, 6 and 11-16 are good cleansing agents per se.
- the cleansing agents of examples 5, 6 and 12 were selected for testing in mixture, as examples 32, 18 and 20 respectively, and produced superior cleaning results.
- the high molecular weight cleaning agents per se of examples 17, 19 and 21, i.e. di(tridecyl) phthalate, epoxidized soy bean oil and partially hydrogenated soy bean oil were tested in mixture with selected finely divided solids, including the testing of heat flow of example 17 (see example 29), to show the superior characteristics of these plasticizer/surfactant mixtures.
- Particularly effective cleansing pastes according to this invention are formulated from the above-described plasticizer/surfactant materials by the combined addition of Cab-O-Sil for its bodying action and Celite for attack on baked-on toner.
- Example 35 is a particularly preferred paste composition since it can be removed from the heated hot roll, after cleaning, by the simple expedient of wiping with a water-wet towel.
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TABLE I ______________________________________ Hot Roll Cleaning Action at 365° F. Smoke Cleaning or Rating Smell ______________________________________ 1 Dimethyl Siloxane DC200 0 Yes 2 Mineral Oil 0 Yes 3 Polybutadiene low MW 0 Yes 4 Polyester MW 850 41/2 Yes 5 Polyester MW 2200 41/2 No 6 Polyester MW 3380 4 No 7 Polyester MW 6000 1 No 8 Polyethoxylated t-octyl phenol 1 mole EtO 41/2 Yes 9 Polyethoxylated t-octyl phenol 3 mole EtO 41/2 Yes 10 Polyethoxylated t-octyl phenol 5 mole EtO 41/2 Yes 11 Polyethoxylated t-octyl phenol 7-8 mole EtO 41/2 No 12 Polyethoxylated t-octyl phenol 9-10 mole EtO 41/2 No 13 Polyethoxylated t-octyl phenol 12-13 mole EtO 41/2 No 14 Polyethoxylated t-octyl phenol 16 mole EtO 41/2 No 15 Polyethoxylated t-octyl phenol 30 mole EtO 41/2 No 16 Polyethoxylated t-octyl phenol 40 mole EtO 41/2 No ______________________________________
TABLE II __________________________________________________________________________ Hot Roll Cleaning Action at 365° F. Cleaning Rating Cleansing Agent/ Cleansing Agent/ Material Additive Graphite Additive Celite Per Se By Wt. Ratio By Wt. Ratio __________________________________________________________________________ 17 Di(tridecyl)phthalate 3 41/2 1 to 1.5 41/2 2 to 1 18 Polyester MW 3380 3 41/2 1 to 1.5 41/2 2 to 1 19 Epoxidized soy bean oil 31/2 41/2 1 to 1.5 41/2 2 to 1 20 Polyethoxylated t-octyl phenol 9-10 mole EtO 31/2 41/2 1 to 1.5 41/2 2 to 1 21 Partially hydrogenated soy bean oil 3 41/2 1 to 1.5 41/2 2 to 1 __________________________________________________________________________
TABLE III ______________________________________ Bodying Action of Additives on Cleansing Agents Cleansing Agent/ Flow on Additive Heated By Wt. Hot Roll Additive Ratio at 10°/90° ______________________________________ 22 Partially hydrogenated soy bean oil Graphite 2/1 No/Yes 23 Partially hydrogenated soy bean oil Graphite 1/1 No/Yes 24 Partially hydrogenated soy bean oil Graphite 1/1.5 No/No 25 Partially hydrogenated soy bean oil Celite 3/1 No/Yes 26 Di(tridecyl)phthalate Graphite 2/1 Yes/Yes 27 Di(tridecyl)phthalate Graphite 1/1 No/Yes 28 Di(tridecyl)phthalate Celite 4/1 Yes/Yes 29 Di(tridecyl)phthalate Celite 2/1 No/No 30 Polyester MW 2200 Graphite 2/1 No/Yes 31 Polyester MW 2200 Celite 4/1 No/Yes 32 Polyester MW 2200 Celite 2/1 No/No 33 Polyethoxylated t-octyl phenol 9-10 mole EtO Graphite 3/1 Yes/Yes 34 Polyethoxylated t-octyl phenol 9-10 mole EtO Graphite 1/1.5 No/Yes ______________________________________
______________________________________ Polyethoxylated t-octyl phenol 9-10 mole EtO 71.2% Celite 22.4% Cab-O-Sil 6.4% ______________________________________
______________________________________ Partially hydrogenated soy bean oil 71.2% Celite 22.4% Cab-O-Sil 6.4% ______________________________________
______________________________________ Polyethoxylated t-octyl phenol 9-10 mole EtO 40.0% Graphite 60.0% ______________________________________
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US3150048A (en) * | 1958-03-21 | 1964-09-22 | Ciba Ltd | Nail lacquer removing preparations |
US3848305A (en) * | 1972-12-26 | 1974-11-19 | Ibm | Roll for contact fusing thermoplastic particles to substrates |
US3861860A (en) * | 1973-10-01 | 1975-01-21 | Xerox Corp | Dry fuser roll cleaning apparatus |
US3956162A (en) * | 1973-06-15 | 1976-05-11 | E. I. Du Pont De Nemours And Company | Thixotropic cleaning composition containing particulate resins and fumed silica |
US3955813A (en) * | 1975-02-07 | 1976-05-11 | International Business Machines Corporation | Copy sheet peeler bar having fluid jet assist |
US3980423A (en) * | 1975-04-28 | 1976-09-14 | Xerox Corporation | Fuser cleaning roll assembly |
US4013400A (en) * | 1975-07-21 | 1977-03-22 | Xerox Corporation | Cleaning apparatus for a heat and pressure fuser |
US4050803A (en) * | 1974-05-28 | 1977-09-27 | Xerox Corporation | Quick release mechanism for a backup roll fuser employed in a copier apparatus |
US4110068A (en) * | 1977-02-22 | 1978-08-29 | International Business Machines Corporation | Hot roller fuser having manually operable jam clearance mechanism |
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US3150048A (en) * | 1958-03-21 | 1964-09-22 | Ciba Ltd | Nail lacquer removing preparations |
US3848305A (en) * | 1972-12-26 | 1974-11-19 | Ibm | Roll for contact fusing thermoplastic particles to substrates |
US3956162A (en) * | 1973-06-15 | 1976-05-11 | E. I. Du Pont De Nemours And Company | Thixotropic cleaning composition containing particulate resins and fumed silica |
US3861860A (en) * | 1973-10-01 | 1975-01-21 | Xerox Corp | Dry fuser roll cleaning apparatus |
US4050803A (en) * | 1974-05-28 | 1977-09-27 | Xerox Corporation | Quick release mechanism for a backup roll fuser employed in a copier apparatus |
US3955813A (en) * | 1975-02-07 | 1976-05-11 | International Business Machines Corporation | Copy sheet peeler bar having fluid jet assist |
US3980423A (en) * | 1975-04-28 | 1976-09-14 | Xerox Corporation | Fuser cleaning roll assembly |
US4013400A (en) * | 1975-07-21 | 1977-03-22 | Xerox Corporation | Cleaning apparatus for a heat and pressure fuser |
US4110068A (en) * | 1977-02-22 | 1978-08-29 | International Business Machines Corporation | Hot roller fuser having manually operable jam clearance mechanism |
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